And for this reason it shines within us in simplicity, and makes us deiform, that is, like unto God. ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)
He was much for liberty of conscience: And being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature, (to use one of his own phrases.) ❋ Various (N/A)
His intellect was patrician -- almost deiform in the old Roman sense. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
And as he is newly born internally so it cometh to pass also outwardly; the external man is transformed, so that he is deiform, or like in form unto God. ❋ C. 1300-1361 (1910)
It is one of his foundation principles that "we worship God best when we resemble Him most," [66] and if that is true, then the whole energy of one's being should concentrate upon the cultivation of "the deiform nature," "the nativity from Above." ❋ Rufus Matthew Jones (1905)
It bestows grace and that grace called _lumen gloriae_, light of glory, endowing the soul with a faculty beyond its natural needs or merits, so disposes the soul that it becomes deiform and is rendered capable of immediate intuition of the Divine Essence. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Augustine, we change not this divine Food into our substance, but rather are transmuted and transformed by it into Himself, and thus are made deiform, and of one nature with Him. ❋ C. 1300-1361 (1875)
We have within us, notwithstanding all our transgressions, what the old divines used to call a 'deiform nature,' capable of being lifted up into the participation of divinity, capable of being cleansed from all the spots and stains which make us so unlike ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
In this unity the spirit must always be like unto God, by grace and virtue, or unlike Him by mortal sin; for man is made in the likeness of God, which he must understand in the sense of grace; for grace is a deiform light which shines through us and makes us like unto God; and without this light we cannot be united supernaturally to God, even though we can never lose the image of God, nor our natural unity in Him. ❋ William Ralph Inge (1907)
Speaking particularly of Whichcote, he says: "Being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as _a seed of a deiform nature_ (to use one of his own phrases). ❋ Rufus Matthew Jones (1905)
Scripture: they were according to the nature of God, "[51] and, as he always claims, according to the deiform nature in man's reason. [ ❋ Rufus Matthew Jones (1905)
